Summer, Summer, Summertime

I love Memorial Day. I love that it kicks off the unofficial start of summer and that fancy free days, even if you aren't a student/teacher. I'm neither teacher nor student this year and summer isn't even my favorite season...but I love that it's here!

Don't you think you get more done in the summer time? The work days go by quicker, everyone is in a much happier mood (that is until the humidity sets in and then all of Pgh wishes it was February again), and there is just so much to do! Or, for the sake of today's post...read! I'm diligently keeping track of all the books I am finishing and am very excited that summer is here. I'm guessing it's the old school routine that is rooted into my foundation, but I tend to read more in the warmer months. And I'm hoping to get through 20 books between Memorial Day & Labor Day, I've crossed two off the list already.

20 Books to Finish by Labor Day (25 is the goal, titles may change):

1. Three Little Words by Ashley Courter-Rhodes (finished)
2. Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green & David Leviathan (finished)
3. The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott by Kelly O. McNees
4. Orange is the New Black: One Year in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
5. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
6. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer
7. Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
8. The Girl Who Chased the Moon by Sarah Addison Allen
9. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age by Victor Mayer - Schonberger
10. The Bedwetter: Stories of Courage, Redemption and Pee by Sarah Silverman
11. The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
12. The Long Song by Andrea Levy
13. The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordin
14. Hole in My Life by Jack Gantos
15. Spoon Fed: How Eight Cooks Changed my Life by Kim Severson
16. Poetry Speaks Who I Am by Elise Paschen
17. The Girl Who Could Fly by Victoria Forester
18. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
19. How Did You Get This Number by Sloane Crosley
20. The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer

Filled with a mix of serious and light, I'm ready to go. Though who knows what books may come my way tomorrow. 2 down, 18 more to go.

Oh, and here is a crowd of librarians changing up Lady GaGa. Yes, it's okay to embarrassed for them. And yes, it's okay to think it's ridiculous. I feel that way. And a tiny part of me loves it.